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Marina Berti
Elena Maureen Bertolino (29 September 1924 – 29 October 2002), known professionally as Marina Berti, was an Italian film actress. She was born in London from an Italian father and an English mother. Biography Her first screen appearance was in the Anna Magnani film, ''La Fuggitiva'' in 1941. She appeared mainly in small roles and in the occasional leading role in nearly 100 films both Italian and American. Her appearances include ''Quo Vadis'' (1951), ''Abdulla the Great'' (1955), '' Ben Hur'' (1959), ''Cleopatra'' (1963), ''If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium'' (1969), ''What Have They Done to Your Daughters?'' (1974), ''Last Stop on the Night Train'' (1975), and the TV miniseries' ''Moses the Lawgiver'' (1975) and ''Jesus of Nazareth'' (1977). Her last film appearance was in the Costa-Gavras film ''Amen.'' in 2002. She was married to the Italian actor Claudio Gora from 1944 until his death in 1998. She was the mother of actor Andrea Giordana and actress Marina Giordana. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London
London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for two millennia. The City of London, its ancient core and financial centre, was founded by the Romans as '' Londinium'' and retains its medieval boundaries.See also: Independent city § National capitals The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has for centuries hosted the national government and parliament. Since the 19th century, the name "London" has also referred to the metropolis around this core, historically split between the counties of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Kent, and Hertfordshire, which largely comprises Greater London, governed by the Greater London Authority.The Greater London Authority consists of the Mayor of London and the London Assembly. The London Mayor is distinguished fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Costa-Gavras
Costa-Gavras (short for Konstantinos Gavras; el, Κωνσταντίνος Γαβράς; born 12 February 1933) is a Greek-French film director, screenwriter, and producer who lives and works in France. He is known for films with political and social themes, such as the political thriller '' Z'' (1969), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and ''Missing'' (1982), for which he won the Palme d'Or and an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Most of his films have been made in French; however, six of them were made in English. His film ''Z'' was the first film, and one of the few, to be nominated for both the Best Picture and Best Foreign Language Film. Early life Costa-Gavras was born in Loutra Iraias, Arcadia. His family spent the Second World War in a village in the Peloponnese, and moved to Athens after the war. His father had been a member of the Pro-Soviet branch of the Greek Resistance, and was imprisoned during the Greek Civil War. His f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sky Is Red
''The Sky Is Red'' ( it, Il cielo è rosso) is a 1950 Italian drama film. It is the directorial debut of Claudio Gora and it is based on the novel with the same name by Giuseppe Berto, depicting the struggle for survival of a group of boys and girls in a bombed-out town in Italy during World War II. It was shown as part of a retrospective "Questi fantasmi: Cinema italiano ritrovato" at the 65th Venice International Film Festival. Cast *Jacques Sernas: Tullio *Marina Berti: Carla * Mischa Auer: Daniele *Anna Maria Ferrero: Giulia *Lauro Gazzolo: calzolaio *Liliana Tellini: Nora *Amedeo Trilli Amedeo Trilli (9 July 1906 – 30 November 1971) was an Italian film and television actor. Life and career Born in Ronciglione, Viterbo, at very young age Trilli worked as a circus artist, then in 1922 he studied performance at the Accademia ... References External links * 1950 films Italian drama films Films directed by Claudio Gora Films with screenplays by Cesare Zavattin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sicilian Uprising
''Sicilian Uprising'' or ''Sicilian Vespers'' (Italian: ''Vespro siciliano'') is a 1949 Italian historical drama film directed by Giorgio Pastina and starring Marina Berti, Clara Calamai and Roldano Lupi.Gesù p.315 The film is set in 1282, showing the events leading up to the War of the Sicilian Vespers. It is based on the libretto of the Verdi opera ''I vespri siciliani'', which was itself based on an earlier play written by Eugène Scribe and Charles Duveyrier. Cast * Marina Berti as Laura * Clara Calamai as Elena Di Caltabellotta * Roldano Lupi as Giovanni Da Procida * Steve Barclay as Capitaine Drouet * Paul Muller as Duke de Saint-Rémy, Governor of Palermo * Ermanno Randi as Ruggero * Aldo Silvani as Abbot of Santo Spirito * Carlo Tamberlani as Tommaso * Aroldo Tieri as Folco * Gabriele Ferzetti * Gianni Glori * Felice Minotti Felice Minotti (19 November 1887 – 21 March 1963) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 91 films between 1908 and 1963. Selected f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prince Of Foxes (film)
''Prince of Foxes'' is a 1949 film adapted from Samuel Shellabarger's novel ''Prince of Foxes''. The movie starred Tyrone Power as Orsini and Orson Welles as Cesare Borgia. It was nominated for two Oscars during the 22nd Academy Awards: Best Black and White Cinematography (Leon Shamroy) and Best Costume Design, Black and White (Vittorio Nino Novarese). They lost the Cinematography award to '' Battleground'' (Paul C. Bogel) while they lost the Costume Design award to ''The Heiress'' (Edith Head and Gile Steele). Plot In August 1500, Andrea Orsini (Tyrone Power), an artistic minor nobleman who is equally skilled with the brush, the sword, words, and women, serves the Machiavellian Prince Cesare Borgia (Orson Welles) as a soldier. Pleased with Andrea's ability to "follow my mind and keep his eyes fixed on the ultimate goal", Borgia selects Andrea to accomplish an intrigue: arrange the marriage of his widowed sister, Lucrezia (whose husband he has just had assassinated for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Earth Cries Out
''The Earth Cries Out'' ( it, Il grido della terra, also known as ''Exodus'') is a 1948 Italian action-drama film directed by Duilio Coletti. In 2008 it was restored and shown as part of a retrospective "Questi fantasmi: Cinema italiano ritrovato" at the 65th Venice International Film Festival. Cast *Marina Berti as Dina *Andrea Checchi as Ariè *Vivi Gioi as Judith *Carlo Ninchi as Comandante della nave * Elena Zareschi as Ada *Filippo Scelzo as Professor Tannen *Vittorio Duse *Cesare Polacco *Arnoldo Foà *Nerio Bernardi *Wanda Capodaglio Wanda Capodaglio (1 January 1889 – 30 August 1980) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 30 films between 1914 and 1970. Her brother Ruggero was married to actress Anna Capodaglio (the stage name of Anna Adele Alberta Gramatica) who ... References External links * 1948 films Italian action drama films Films directed by Duilio Coletti Films set in Israel Films set in Mandatory Palestine Italian black-and-w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veglia Nella Notte
Krk (; it, Veglia; ruo, Krk; dlm, label= Vegliot Dalmatian, Vikla; la, Curicta; grc-gre, Κύρικον, Kyrikon) is a Croatian island in the northern Adriatic Sea, located near Rijeka in the Bay of Kvarner and part of Primorje-Gorski Kotar county. Krk is tied with Cres as the largest Adriatic island, depending on the methodology used to measure the coastline. Krk is the most populous island in the Adriatic, with multiple towns and villages that contain a total of 19,383 (2011) inhabitants. History Prehistory Archeological findings indicate that the island was inhabited continuously since Neolithic, although very few information the earliest people is known. In later periods, Greek and Latin sources refer to ''Κύριστα'' (Ancient Greek) or ''Curicta'' (Latin) as one of the Apsyrtidian or Electridian islands held by the people known as Liburnians. The Liburnians called the island "Curicum", which name is assumed to be given the island by its original inhabitant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fatal Symphony
''Fatal Symphony'' (Italian: ''Sinfonia fatale'') is a 1947 Italian war-melodrama film directed by Victor Stoloff and starring Douglass Montgomery, Marina Berti and Sarah Churchill. It was screened and awarded a prize at the Lugano Festival.Lovell p.495 It was shot at the Scalera Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Ottavio Scotti and Vittorio Valentini. Synopsis Before the Second World War an American composer, separated from his wife, comes to live in Italy and falls in love with a country girl. Cast * Douglass Montgomery as John Savage * Marina Berti as Mirella * Sarah Churchill as Mrs. Savage * Tullio Carminati as Pedro Diaz * Victor Rietti as Beppo * Carlo Romano as Giorgio * John Blythe as pittore Pierre Robert * Cesare Fantoni as sacerdote * Pina Gallini as Nunziata, moglie di Beppo * Claudio Gora as Rodolfo Marini * Sergio Capogna as Rocco * Renzo Merusi as tenore d'Errico * Giuseppe Pierozzi as impiegato galleria d'arte * Pina Piova ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Testimony (1946 Film)
''The Testimony'' (Italian: ''Il testimone'') is 1946 Italian crime film directed by Pietro Germi and starring Roldano Lupi, Marina Berti and Ernesto Almirante. It is one of several films regarded as an antecedent of the later giallo thrillers.Moliterno p.150 The film was made at the Cines Studios in Rome. The sets were designed by the art director Salvo D'Angelo. Cast * Roldano Lupi as Pietro Scotti * Marina Berti as Linda * Ernesto Almirante as Giuseppe Marchi, il testimone * Sandro Ruffini as L'avvocato difensore * Cesare Fantoni as Il padrone dell' osteria * Arnoldo Foà as L'impiegato dell' anagrafe * Dino Maronetto as Andrea, il condanato * Marcella Melnati as La padrone di casa * Alfredo Salvatori * Petr Sharov as Il pubblico ministero * Pietro Fumelli * Angelo Calabrese * Vittorio Cottafavi * Giovanni Petrucci Giovanni Petrucci (said Gianni; born 19 July 1945, in Rome) is an Italian sports director. He is the current President of CONI for the four ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ten Commandments (1945 Film)
''The Ten Commandments'' (Italian: ''I dieci comandamenti'') is a 1945 Italian drama film directed by Giorgio Walter Chili. It features an ensemble of Italian actors in episodes based on the Ten Commandments. It was made during the German occupation of Rome, which brought a halt to all ongoing work at Italian film studios. Only two films made with Holy See, Vatican support went into production at the time, providing employment for actors and technicians. The other film was Vittorio De Sica's ''The Gates of Heaven''. Their work on the films enabled them to refuse demands that they relocate north to work in the Venice-based film industry of the puppet Italian Social Republic.Gundle, Stephen. ''Mussolini's Dream Factory: Film Stardom in Fascist Italy''. Berghahn Books, 2013. The lengthy production process meant that it wasn't released until long after Rome had been liberated by Allied forces. Cast * Marina Berti as (segment "Non desiderare la roba d'altri") * Carlo Campanini as (se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gates Of Heaven
''The Gates of Heaven'' ( it, La porta del cielo) is a 1945 Italian drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica. The film was made during the German occupation of Rome, with support from the Vatican. This and another film ''The Ten Commandments'' allowed a number of actors, under pressure to go north and work in Venice for the film industry of Mussolini's puppet Italian Social Republic, to remain in Rome.Gundle p.262 The film's sets were designed by Salvo D'Angelo who also worked as co-producer. Vittorio de Sica hired approximately 300 extras, who were Jewish or simply being persecuted by the Nazi regime, because of their physical oddity. To avoid their deportation and later execution, he prolonged the shooting of the film as long as he could, awaiting the arrival of the allied armies. The film won the OCIC Special Award at the 53rd Venice International Film Festival in 1996 for efforts to restore the film. Plot This is the story of a train full of sick and deformed pilgrims on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Valley Of The Devil
''The Valley of the Devil'' (Italian: ''La valle del diavolo'') is a 1943 Italian historical drama film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Marina Berti, Carlo Ninchi and Andrea Checchi.Parish p.106 It was shot at the Palatino Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Piero Filippone and Mario Rappini. Cast * Marina Berti as Greta Hansel * Carlo Ninchi as Il capitano medico Hansel * Andrea Checchi as Il tenente medico Peter Grundel * Osvaldo Valenti as Il barone Rider * Ada Dondini as Zia Frida * Nino Pavese as Stefano, il maggiordomo * Gildo Bocci as Il postiglione * Tino Scotti as Olaf, il marinaio attendente * Carlo Duse Carlo Duse (5 January 1898 – 9 September 1956) Birth name: Carlo Artemio e Vittorio Duse. With mention in margin of his date and place of death. was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1916 and 1956. He was bor ... References Bibliography * Parish, Robert. ''Film Actors Guide''. Scarecrow Pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
